Q: How can I read old Inbox+msf backups from Thunderbird?

Discussion in 'Firefox' started by Christian Drewing, May 1, 2007.

  1. Christian Drewing

    Christian Drewing Guest

    Recently I found an old RAR archive of Thunderbird emails from 2003.
    Hmm, let's see what is inside. But how? When I create a new email
    account in Thunderbird and paste the files to the related mail profile
    folder, Thunderbird only shows up 2 emails - but the old 'Inbox' is
    more than 300 MB. So something seems to have gone wrong.

    Is there a program to read old and possibly partly corrupted
    Thunderbird mailfiles?

    Thank you all,
    Christian
     
    Christian Drewing, May 1, 2007
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  2. Christian Drewing

    Doug G Guest

    Give the backed up files an .mbx extension and then open the files with
    MsgView.

    Download MsgView from http://www.elbiah.de/tools/old/
     
    Doug G, May 1, 2007
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  3. Christian Drewing

    Ed Mullen Guest

    Possibilities

    1) corrupted .msf files. Delete them and restart TB

    2) could be that the messages have been marked in such a way as to
    prevent their being viewed. See:

    http://www.eyrich-net.org/mozilla/X-Mozilla-Status.html?en
    http://home.att.net/~cherokee67/restoredelmail.html
    http://home.att.net/~cherokee67/restoredelmail2.html
     
    Ed Mullen, May 1, 2007
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